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From: pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Peter Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.1, local mail is from daemon
Message-ID: <3239.278508c8@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 91 03:59:20 GMT
References: <9101040511.AA04290@belch.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article <9101040511.AA04290@belch.Berkeley.EDU>, rusty@BELCH.BERKELEY.EDU (Rusty Wright) writes:
> Local mail on my DECstation always has daemon in the From line,
> although the From: line shows the correct sender.  Here is a sample:
> 
> 	From daemon Thu Jan  3 20:59:36 1991
> 	Received: by belch.Berkeley.EDU (5.57/1.41)
> 		id AA04254; Thu, 3 Jan 91 20:59:35 -0800
> 	Date: Thu, 3 Jan 91 20:59:35 -0800
> 	From: rusty (Rusty Wright)
> 	Message-Id: <9101040459.AA04254@belch.Berkeley.EDU>
> 	To: rusty
> 
> I suspect that its from the Ou1 that's in the sendmail.cf file that we
> use here at UC Berkeley.  But if I remember correctly, that's been
> there forever; why don't other sendmail's put daemon in the From line?
> Is there something other than Ou1 that I should have in my sendmail.cf
> file?  Or should I delete it?

Is sendmail running set-uid?  (It needs to be.)  Is 'root' one of the 
'Trusted users'?

I seem to recall the setuid problem on SYSV machines, but I guess it could
happen on BSD too...

Peter
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